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It took about two weeks for 12-year-old hockey player Ash Kolstad to recover from his first concussion after taking a hit and smashing his head on the ice. Five years after his second concussion, though, the daily pounding headaches haven’t gone away.

A Calgary physician who is refusing to prescribe birth control to patients at a walk-in clinic in the city’s southwest may not be fulfilling her obligation to patient health, say experts in medical ethics. “I think this doctor may be, because of her religious attitudes, unable to meet an important range of patients’ health needs,” said Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, and a former head of the university’s biomedical ethics section.

Women have another reason to exercise: It may help prevent kidney stones. You don't have to break a sweat or be a super athlete, either. Even walking for a couple hours a week can cut the risk of developing this painful and common problem by about one-third, a large study found.

Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centres.

CALGARY — The Alberta company at the centre of the country’s biggest ever beef recall fired back Thursday at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for its suggestion there had been delays in handing over test data that later revealed contaminated product was slipping through undetected. XL Foods Inc. broke its media silence to say meat from the Brooks plant was always quarantined for at least 18 hours while tests for a potentially fatal bacteria were done and the results analyzed.

They're more likely than boys to wish they were someone else and to feel depressed or low on a weekly basis, or more. According to a new national study, Canadian girls are experiencing substantially higher levels of emotional problems and less emotional well-being than boys.

Rita, a 47-year-old financial adviser, was trying to shed some unwanted pounds and drop her blood cholesterol.Like many people, she vowed to give up carbohydrates such as pasta and bread, which had seemed to help her lose weight in the past.

Canada's leading multiple sclerosis scientists and researchers have recommended there be no Canadawide clinical trials of a controversial treatment for the disease because of the overwhelming lack of scientific evidence on the procedure's safety.

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